•  d3Xt3r   ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 
    79•1 month ago

    Here’s the TL;DR from Phoronix:

    #AMD

    • AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for modern Ryzen systems. This is for leveraging ACPI CPPC data between CPU cores for improving task placement on AMD Ryzen systems for cores that can achieve higher frequencies and also helping in hybrid selection between say Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. This AMD Preferred Core support has been in development since last year.

    • Performance gains on AMD 4th Gen EPYC

    • AMD FRU Memory Poison Manager merged along with other work as part of better supporting the AMD MI300 series.

    • AMD has continued upstreaming more RDNA3+ refresh and RDNA4 graphics hardware support into the AMDGPU driver.

    #Intel

    • Intel Xeon Max gains in some AI workloads

    • Intel FRED was merged for Flexible Return and Event Delivery with future Intel CPUs to overhaul CPU ring transitions.

    • Reworked x86 topology code for better handling Intel Core hybrid CPUs.

    • Intel Fastboot support is now enabled across all supported graphics generations.

    • Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” tuning that can yield nice performance improvements for those using new Intel laptops.

    • Continued work on the experimental Intel Xe DRM kernel graphics driver that Intel is aiming to get ready in time for Xe2 / Lunar Lake.

    Video, Filesystem & Network

    • Support for larger frame-buffer console fonts with modern 4K+ displays.

    • Dropping the old NTFS driver.

    • Improved case-insensitive file/folder handling.

    • Performance optimizations for Btrfs.

    • More efficient discard and improved journal pipelining for Bcachefs.

    • FUSE passthrough mode finally made it to the mainline kernel.

    • More online repair improvements for XFS.

    • Much faster exFAT performance when engaging the “dirsync” mount option.

    • Many networking improvements.

    Full summary here: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features/

    •  d3Xt3r   ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 
      31•1 month ago

      Indeed. But I think some confusion will still remain as long as the ntfs-3g FUSE driver is still included by distros. Because right now, you have to explicitly specify the filesystem type as ntfs3 if you want to use the new in-kernel driver, otherwise it would use ntfs-3g. And most guides on the web still haven’t been updated to use ntfs3 in the fstab, so I’m afraid this confusion will continue to persist for some time.

      •  SteveTech   ( @SteveTech@programming.dev ) English
        6•1 month ago

        I’ve had bad experiences with ntfs3 anyway, so it’s probably for the best that ntfs-3g is the default. Also last I checked ntfs3 had effectively been orphaned by paragon (the developers), is that still the case?

        •  d3Xt3r   ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 
          10•1 month ago

          ntfs3 has had several improvements in 6.2 and 6.8, and it’s been pretty stable for me of late. I use it to share/backup my Steam game library mainly + for my portable drives for general data storage/local backups, and haven’t had any issues.

          It’s not orphaned. There was a bit of lull after it was introduced in kernel 5.15, and yes it was a bit unstable in the 5.x series, but it’s been pretty good since 6.2 where they finally introduced the nocase and windows_names mount options. The performance improvements are worth it if you use NTFS heavily, so I would personally recommend switching.

          •  Sina   ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) 
            2•1 month ago

            I would have loved to take that performance before I converted my data drives to ext4, however it’s just inherently not stable.

            Sometimes If you have a power loss you have to run chkdsk on Windows to get out of ro mode, no?

            •  d3Xt3r   ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 
              1•1 month ago

              It’s r/w, if you specify the filesystem type as ntfs3. I believe if you use just ntfs it’ll be read-only, to mimic the behaviour of the old driver, for compatibility reasons.

          •  taaz   ( @taaz@biglemmowski.win ) English
            1•1 month ago

            For me, Steam (on Linux) has been periodically corrupting the ntfs disk, I do use it on windows too and not even win hybrid/fastboot/hibernation disabled helps.

            May I see what mount options you use for the ntfs3 driver in fstab? I do not currently have the nocase and windows_names …

            •  d3Xt3r   ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 
              3•1 month ago

              Mine looks like this:

              UUID=blah /media/games ntfs3 uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000,rw,user,exec,nofail,nocase,windows_names 0 0

              If you’re copy-pasting this, make sure your uid and gid matches of course.

              But the key thing for Steam is you need to have your compatdata folder on a Linux partition, because Proton creates folders with invalid characters (like :). windows_names would prevent that of course, and thus prevents corruption, but it would cause Proton to fail since if can’t create those folders/files. So you’ll need to symlink that folder on your NTFS disk to point to a folder on a Linux partition.

              Eg:

              $ mkdir -p ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata
$ ln -s ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata /media/games/Steam/steamapps/

              Of course, before you run the above, you’ll need to delete the existing compatdata folder from the NTFS disk.